CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • A Musical Tribute to Scott McKay’s Notion of “Gangsta Culture”

    My official response to this absurdity. Quoting: But there are alternative cultures present in this country. And one of them is the hip-hop/gangsta culture which, as we said, is ravaging the black community but is by no means limited to that community. If you combined the adherents to the gangsta culture among the non-black ethnicities in America it wouldn’t be a surprise to find there are just as many whites and Hispanics in gross numbers as blacks who are influenced by it or using it as a lifestyle in some form or fashion. This isn’t just about a certain kind…

  • A Response to Scott McKay and The Hayride

    A Response to Scott McKay and The Hayride

    In a postscript in my previous post about the future of the Louisiana Democratic Party, I thanked the website The Hayride for the inspiration. But I made a mistake. Instead of referencing the actual post that had inspired me, titled Louisiana’s Democrats Have Gone Completely Off the Rails, I referenced a post published several years ago on LouisianaConservative.com, misattributing The Hayride as the publisher. It was an honest mistake, though, to be clear, I take total responsibility for not double-checking the reference. The Hayride has published and promoted a series of articles that would have illustrated the same point I was making: That, in…

  • The Inmate-Industrial Complex

    Cindy Chang of The Times-Picayune hit the ball out of the park yesterday with her insightful and extensive report about the machinations and the inner-workings of the Louisiana prison system. Her report, titled “Louisiana is the world’s prison capital,” should be required reading for anyone and everyone who cares about the Gret Stet; it’s transcendental, award-winning journalism. But more importantly, it’s also a devastating indictment of a system that intransigently incentivizes widespread incarceration, the prison as profit center. The numbers don’t lie: Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the world. We lock up more of our citizens, per capita, than…